Grace's 8th Birthday

I love you more than chocolate, more than air, more than the sky.
I love your creativity, your compassion.
I love your sense of adventure and the way you persevere when the going gets tough.
I love watching home shows with you snuggled up close.
I love your goodnight kisses and the way your eyes light up at the thought of fun.
You are my joy and you truly are amazing.

Happy Birthday Grace!

Baseball Game

I like to go to baseball games in the summer.  There's just something about it.  The slow pace.  The hotdogs.  The conversation.  The beautiful field.  The family atmosphere and people of all ages.  And if you get the chance to go to an evening game and watch the sunset, and the sky display all its brilliant colors, and feel the crispness creep into the air all while watching the game, ahhh... nothin like it.

Today Mike took Grace and Ainsley.

The girls outside the stadium

Their view

At the end of the game.

These girls were troopers!

Hot and tired.

It was really hot and then the clouds rolled in.  Whew!
We got Rock Pile tickets for the first time.  All three tickets were $6!!!
I love baseball in the summer (did I already say that?).

My Birthday

We went here for the weekend

Pretty.

Looks a bit like a "Paint By Numbers" doesn't it?

I love these chairs.

We take a picture in them every year.

Isabel sat on Mike's lap all the way up the mountain on the chair lift and back down.

I couldn't watch.

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We had a great time!
Look forward to it again next year.

Random

Scenes from the weekend

trip to Home Depot

what Isabel does with my clean laundry piles

garage sale finds

Sleepover with cousins

sprinkler park

friends who went to Rapids soccer game with Daddy

and got cool binoculars

and HUGE snowcones!

and that evening at home

(photo taken by Grace)

Hope you had a great weekend too!

Where am I?

Hello Friends and Family in Nebraska!

Bubbles

bubble blower

bubble catchers

(even emma)

Summer Fun

Yesterday we played in the park with friends and when we got home the girls were instantly bored.
I told them to go get their swimsuits on and meet me out back.
They were in suspense.  Why?  Why?  Why?

I put out three cans of this.

I sprayed some on the table and handed it to them.

They didn't know what to do with it at first.

It only took a few minutes until this....

and this....

(Isabel really was having fun - she just wasn't into me taking her picture that day)

and then they headed over to the slip-n-slide for some real fun!

Great fun on a hot summer day!